First HDR attempt

What to you all think?

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/jdocphoto/70254​59209/

The image looks great, but the choice of scene to shoot is poor, dynamic range travel in a photo so shooting something a single plane opposed to shooting lets say down a street is completely different. When you shoot down a street let say in downtown and the buildings in the back of the images loose detail due to shadows and light fading, the bracketed over exposed shots will capture those areas and bring the detail back, shooting a single plane bracket has no dynamic range, you should try shooting a scene with depth on a single shot and see what areas need detail brought into the scene like a creek with running water and a lot of shadows areas.

Don't get me wrong the image is great but the biggest misconception with HDR is people think just cause you took a underexposed, normal and overexposed shot and blended them together doesn't mean its HDR, more or less tone mapped or blended, and guaranteed this result above could of been easily accomplished with a single image shot in RAW and post processed.

Here is an image I shot under the Santa Monica pier, look at the pillars in the back, if you shot a single image no way you could see any detail on them at all, hence the shallow dynamic range of the sensor. If I recall I shot this with my 1d3 and a 7 shot bracket -3 to +3 on a tri-pod ofcourse.

http://farm3.staticfli​ckr.com …29618320_260018​b19a_o.jpg

Yeah its not a realistic HDR but i railed the saturation slider on this one.

Sevan

Thanks for the tips! I will be on the lookout for a scene that provides just that!

EDIT: And that is a awesome shot by the way!!

I think that is some awesome graffiti! post up the non-hdr so we can see the before and after.

Here is the non-HDR

Simple curves adjustment (or levels) would bring that one out.